Background:Background: When guidelines for health economic evaluations prescribe that a societal perspective should be … national health economic guidelines about the inclusion or exclusion of these costs. For those studies that did include …

cancer have reported only modest gains in survival. These health gains are achieved at considerable cost, but economic … the bibliographic databases PubMed, EMBASE and Health Economic Evaluations (HEED) [via the Cochrane Library] for …

admitted to the hospital and also visited the outpatient unit. Since all patients were exclusively treated at the centre, data …

Background:Background: National EQ-5D value sets are developed because preferences for health may vary in different … populations. UK values are lower than US values for most of the 243 possible EQ-5D health states. Although similar protocols were … national value sets. Participants in the UK and US studies assessed the same subset of 42 EQ-5D health states using the time …

Background: Research has consistently demonstrated a relationship between depression and increased levels of health … economic impact of non-remission on health service use and costs over 12 months from the index episode in patients with … health service use and cost over the 12-month study period, by remission status, where remission is defined as patients not …

, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, between 2000 and 2005 provided information on patient characteristics, antiretroviral drugs and …